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Posted by 3Dee Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

Am I missing something or are there two devices of differing sizes shown here?

 
 
Posted by kingbernie06511 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

what i dont get is the device on the right.. the new Torch touch has hard buttons that stick out...

 
 
Posted by Pootermobile Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

The one on the right seems to be a 9860 or 9850 although I don't remember which one was reported to have hard buttons and which one was supposed to have touch sensitive buttons. I really like the touch sensitive buttons better. And the Curve looks very nice although i would've wanted it to have at least a 1 Ghz processor.

 
 
Posted by Bla1ze Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

Pre-release device.. they tried different formats.

 
 
Posted by CLTrujillo Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

Maybe its the QNX...

 
 
Posted by kingbernie06511 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

it boots the old school BBOS

 
 
Posted by MiWaCa Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

I want to be in love with this device but with an 800Mhz processor that's not gonna happen. Most, if not all lower end android devices (samsung captivate, lg optimus black) have at least a 1Ghz processor... :(

 
 
Posted by kingbernie06511 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

but I know there were engineering Torch with flush soft buttons out there...

 
 
Posted by themenacexd Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

I was thinking the one on the right was a torch 9850/60 but then the buttons are not sticking out so I'm wondering what it is now... O.o

 
 
Posted by Bla1ze Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

Pre-release engineering unit before RIM changed the buttons. Really stating the obvious here. :/

 
 
Posted by Xacradin Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

pity curve has nfc instead of torches...

 
 
Posted by MattDub22 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

a Major +1!

The Torch WAS a premier device in my eyes. Definitely one to release the new features of BB on (OS6, slider, larger memory...) and to leave NFC out is just ridiculous. Now you really need to decide which BB best suits you, no more buying the top of the line and expecting to get all the best of the best features... I guess I was just spoiled with the 9780 having everything I needed when it came out.. and now too.

 
 
Posted by gord888 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

Bold and Curve line will always be RIMs bread and butter. Everything else is just icing on the cake... .... damnit, all this talk of food is making me hungry.

 
 
Posted by the brother Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

i'd hit that....

 
 
Posted by MaxPayne79 Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 251 days ago

i 2nd that.

 
 
Posted by juwaack68 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

Butt ugly.

 
 
Posted by 1magine Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

"who the heck beat these devices up so bad.." Uhh that's what happens to plastic screens over time. Thta's why we don't use plastic on smart phones.

 
 
Posted by Bla1ze Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

I've never had a screen look like that no matter how bad I abused the phone.

 
 
Posted by latekite Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

wonder which one will see the light of day.

 
 
Posted by Dreadz24 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

JM-1 1230 battery+800mhz processor= maybe some pretty good battery life.

 
 
Posted by netviper Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 252 days ago

Why does BRG get any freaking leaked info for blackberry at all? All they do is TRASH the crap out of every blackberry product.

 
 
Posted by MaxPayne79 Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 251 days ago

he's changed. if you read the current ones, he's really made an effort to be positive instead of negative.

 
 
Posted by Mallet21 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

The screen on my 13month old Curve 8530 looks just as beat up as this one.

 
 
Posted by burkey1973 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a video with a RIM exec where he stated the reason they called the 9850/9860 a Torch was because it kept with the full touch screen experience of the Torch 9800 and they wanted to continue with concept/marketing they had already built upon with the 9800. Releasing a full touch screen curve seems to go against that.

 
 
Posted by derekjdech Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

I think this phone is a great little touchscreen device! My carrier (sasktel) has the htc wildfire s' which is a tiny smartphone. And rogers has the tiny sony ericson phone. With the htc and sony smartphones, throw in this nice little curve and the possible iphone nano, I think we could have a little battle of the mini touchscreen smartphones! Just keep this a curve, and not a torch. There's like 4 torches out now Derekjdech
Samsung Alias-Samsung Vice-BlackBerry Pearl Flip- Curve 9360 & PlayBook

 
 
Posted by LewLew23 Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

Is it just me or does the Curve 9380 look like the Torch 9810, just without the keyboard underneath it?

 
 
Posted by GADA Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

how can this fit that long jm 1 battery just like the 9850 via PLAYBOOK/BOLD9930

 
 
Posted by bbstorm2verizon Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 251 days ago

Looks very similar to the BlackBerry Storm2 to me. The front looks almost identical. I'm glad I upgraded to the BlackBerry Torch 9850 on Verizon!

 
 
Posted by theKHMERboy Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 251 days ago

this actually looks like a nice phone full touchscreen with no raised keys maybe lower res then all the other new blackberrys out but seems to have the same things the torch1 already have but with hd and no keyboard... hmm might be a fun phone to have but still waiting on qnx phone

 
 
Posted by Kryngle Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 251 days ago

This Curve to ME looks like the Storm 2 with a trackpad. I guess the Storm body lives on with just a few upgrades. I dunno what RIM is up to but keep em coming.

 
 
Posted by smarkow Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 251 days ago

seems like the new Touch Screen curve is about the same size as the Storm1 and Storm2 devices.